NEW ZEALAND.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, last night." The A. and P. Society yesterday discussed the position of the II Mbit Board. Under the old Act the evidence of a rabbit inspector was sufficient to gain a conviction for failure to keep down rabbits, but an amending Act hist session provided that witnesses could be calied for the defence, and judgment given according to the weight of evidence. This, it was pointed out, made it practically impossible for the Board to get convictions. The result is that, unless the amending clause is repealed, the Babbit Board will dismiss all inspectors, and cease to exist. The A. and P. Society carried a resolution that the amending Act be repealed, and the old provisions restored. William Higgins and James Fulmer have been committed to trial on a charge of breaking and entering at Hastings. Dannevirkc, last night. Alfred Friis, a young man, was killed this morning in the Totara Sawmill Company’s Oriugi bush by the dry limb of a tree filling on him. Feilding, last night. In connection with tho damage caused in tho Oroua, river district by recent floods, the Borough Council resolved last night to request the Government to send a surveyor to inspect tho river. It is estimated that the proposed protective works will cost five or six thousand pounds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 464, 5 July 1902, Page 1
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